PARIS — A 23-year-old Brownfield man pleaded guilty Friday in Oxford County Superior Court to stealing four vehicles and torching one of them in April.
As part of a plea agreement, Derek J. Foster will serve three years of a previously suspended probation violation sentence. He will also serve six months concurrently for theft by receiving stolen property.
Foster pleaded guilty to one count of arson, one count of burglary, three counts of theft by unauthorized taking and one count of theft by receiving stolen property. He received 10-year suspended sentences for arson, burglary and one theft by unauthorized taking charge, and a five-year suspended sentence for theft by unauthorized taking.
He was ordered to pay restitution, court costs and attorney’s fees.
The charges stem from an April 30 incident in which Foster and two teenage boys were charged with stealing four vehicles and two ATVs in Fryeburg and Brownfield, according to police. One vehicle was burned and two were dumped into the Saco River.
The total loss for the vehicles and ATVs was estimated at $36,800, according to Oxford County Sheriff’s Department officials.
In December 2012, Foster was charged with stealing five trucks and a car in Maine and New Hampshire and setting fire to three of them. He was on probation for a 2011 burglary conviction at the time.
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